Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Outside noisy, inside empty.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.